Steveawiggins

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• Finally, Therapy

  

  Like religion and horror, humor and horror can also get along well. As an aesthetic, it’s not for everyone, but Grady Hendrix does it well. It took some... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eternal Return

  

  Amazon gets a lot of bad press.  For me, anyone that sends me books gets a warm fuzzy association.  Besides, returns are a snap.  Amazon has sent me the wrong... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New York History

  

  Regular readers know I’ve been on a Washington Irving kick. My wife kindly agreed to read his History of New York to me as I was doing the dishes (we’ve read... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Disputing Tradition

  

  I respect tradition.  Normally.  Once in a while tradition should be disputed.  The other day I was reminded of the seventeenth-century aphorism, “The early bir... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dinosaur Planet

  

  Time, as the crew of the Odyssey finds out, can cast things in a different light. Admittedly I watched Planet of the Dinosaurs because it was free on Amazon... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Literary Detective

  

  A writer’s life can take many forms. Alexandre Dumas, for example, (the father, just to be clear) had tremendous success with his novels The Three Musketeers an... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Miracles

  

  “Expect a miracle,” Oral Roberts used to say, “and a miracle is yours today.”  The famed Evangelical probably didn’t have Catholic-variety miracles in mind,... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holiday Hopping

  

  Weekends in spring are like touching base.  They’re the only places you can’t be tagged out and you run from one to the next, hoping not to get caught. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Friends and Dreams

  

  The mind is a labyrinth.  Ever since the time change (especially), I’ve been waking with the weirdest dreams.  One involved someone I haven’t really thought... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Curses

  

  Once again I’m reminded that Holy Horror was never intended to be comprehensive. I recently watched The Cursed (the 2021 one, directed by Sean Ellis). Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Importance of Sharing

  

  Growing up with siblings, I remember it well—my mother instilling the message of sharing.  If something good came my way, I could count on hearing “Share that... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rock the Absurd

  

  Okay, so it was bound to happen eventually.  You see, the internet makes us all interchangeable in a way.  I occasionally lament being confused by various... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Philanthropy

  

  I’m sure it’s happened to you.  You’ve driven two or three places, often in different towns, then you simply give up, go home, and order it on Amazon. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Addenda

  

  In retrospect, I suppose I wrote Holy Horror a bit prematurely. Back when I started writing it, I had thought that the Bible in horror wasn’t as common as I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Search Your Engines

  

  It’s been fascinating to watch.  We tend to think things appear instantaneously on the internet, and sometimes they do.  Book announcements, however, are less... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Living Through Writing

  

  I’ve perhaps lived too long to be a great writer.  Of course, most of my fiction remains unpublished, much of it read and rejected by editors younger than... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Becoming American

  

  Image credit: John Wesley Jarvis, via Wikimedia Commons I love reading literary scholars if they write accessibly. William L. Hedges did, mostly, in Washington... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Exorcist

  

  I learned from the wonderful Theofantastique that Russell Crowe’s new movie is The Pope’s Exorcist. (I guess Crowe hadn’t read Nightmares with the Bible to thin... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Actual Intelligence (AI)

  

  “Creepy” is the word often used, even by the New York Times, regarding conversations with AI. Artificial Intelligence gets much of its data from the internet an... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Glen Da

  

  My current fascination with Ed Wood is, strangely, related to waking up too early. I’ve tried for years to calibrate my schedule to more like a normal one—I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY